Comments on: Court Rewards Exxon for Valdez Oil Spill http://www.gregpalast.com/court-rewards-exxon-for-valdez-oil-spill/ Greg Palast, reporting for BBC, Harpers and more Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:47:41 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Rampart http://www.gregpalast.com/court-rewards-exxon-for-valdez-oil-spill/comment-page-1/#comment-16424 Rampart Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:32:40 +0000 http://www.gregpalast.com/?p=2040#comment-16424 Thanks for this wonderful report and all the other fine work you're doing. I work as a seaman and some of my first jobs as a teen ager, were gill netting with Indians out of Seward and Whittier. What Exxon has been allowed to get away with is indeed a crime. It is an immense service you provide in your truth coverage. I have seen some footage of Sarah Palin's response to the Supreme court's ruling wherein she expressed some disappointment but encouraged everyone to "move forward", the usual advice from the thieves who rob you, only to remain on the streets to re-offend. I wonder if during your investigation of the matter you've been able to unearth any complacency on her part or if she has been found to have benefitted at all from the decision? Given her misuse of power in her dealings with the local Public Safety Commissioner she destroyed in an effort to shit-can her brother -in-law, I should think it likely. For someone who stands up to the big corporations she seemed awfully yielding in her acceptance of the court's decision. Keep up the good work, -Rampart Thanks for this wonderful report and all the other fine work you're doing. I work as a seaman and some of my first jobs as a teen ager, were gill netting with Indians out of Seward and Whittier. What Exxon has been allowed to get away with is indeed a crime. It is an immense service you provide in your truth coverage.

I have seen some footage of Sarah Palin's response to the Supreme court's ruling wherein she expressed some disappointment but encouraged everyone to "move forward", the usual advice from the thieves who rob you, only to remain on the streets to re-offend. I wonder if during your investigation of the matter you've been able to unearth any complacency on her part or if she has been found to have benefitted at all from the decision?

Given her misuse of power in her dealings with the local Public Safety Commissioner she destroyed in an effort to shit-can her brother -in-law, I should think it likely. For someone who stands up to the big corporations she seemed awfully yielding in her acceptance of the court's decision.

Keep up the good work,
-Rampart

]]> By: TXsharon http://www.gregpalast.com/court-rewards-exxon-for-valdez-oil-spill/comment-page-1/#comment-13725 TXsharon Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:47:28 +0000 http://www.gregpalast.com/?p=2040#comment-13725 This makes me feel hopeless and ashamed about being human. I want to blog about it to call more attention to it, but you did such a great job with your righteous anger that I can't even summarize it. I just keep reading it over and over... This makes me feel hopeless and ashamed about being human. I want to blog about it to call more attention to it, but you did such a great job with your righteous anger that I can't even summarize it. I just keep reading it over and over...

]]> By: Phuck http://www.gregpalast.com/court-rewards-exxon-for-valdez-oil-spill/comment-page-1/#comment-7229 Phuck Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:22:33 +0000 http://www.gregpalast.com/?p=2040#comment-7229 they bought heaven and hell. money is in power man. they bought heaven and hell.
money is in power man.

]]> By: Kellie Kvasnikoff http://www.gregpalast.com/court-rewards-exxon-for-valdez-oil-spill/comment-page-1/#comment-5579 Kellie Kvasnikoff Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:18:11 +0000 http://www.gregpalast.com/?p=2040#comment-5579 To Whom it may concern, I am a plaintiff in the Exxon Valdez disaster. I published a book on the oil spill entitled “Exxon Valdez 18 Years and Counting”. In that book I said that “justice” for the Exxon Valdez-impacted fishermen should be spelled “Just Us.” The law did not help us in our time of need. It hindered us. The law went any way Exxon wished to pull it. This latest Supreme Court decision on “punitive damages” (Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker) is more of the same. It is a travesty. It is filled with errors. Bad facts, bad law. Please consider signing this petition to open an investigation immediately and without delay into the wrongdoings of the Exxon Shipping Company and specifically the erroneous act of the Supreme Court in Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker. Widget code and link below. <a href="http://www.rallycongress.com/exxon/" rel="nofollow"></a> http://www.rallycongress.com/exxon/1168 Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter. To Whom it may concern, I am a plaintiff in the Exxon Valdez disaster. I published a book on the oil spill entitled “Exxon Valdez 18 Years and Counting”. In that book I said that “justice” for the Exxon Valdez-impacted fishermen should be spelled “Just Us.” The law did not help us in our time of need. It hindered us. The law went any way Exxon wished to pull it.
This latest Supreme Court decision on “punitive damages” (Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker) is more of the same. It is a travesty. It is filled with errors. Bad facts, bad law.
Please consider signing this petition to open an investigation immediately and without delay into the wrongdoings of the Exxon Shipping Company and specifically the erroneous act of the Supreme Court in Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker.
Widget code and link below.

http://www.rallycongress.com/exxon/1168

Thank you for your time and consideration in this matter.

]]> By: Pomme Hanrahan http://www.gregpalast.com/court-rewards-exxon-for-valdez-oil-spill/comment-page-1/#comment-4915 Pomme Hanrahan Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:19:58 +0000 http://www.gregpalast.com/?p=2040#comment-4915 Mr. Palast, it appears the mainstream media is hoping no one notices the huge oil tanker collision and spill near New Orleans in the Mississippi River of July 23, 2008. It isn't exactly the sort of thing they want the public to notice while the Bush administration is pushing the idea of drilling for more oil in Alaska. The New Orleans, oil tanker collision, and Alaska/Valdez connections to the story reminded me of some of the subjects you've dealt with. Mr. Palast, it appears the mainstream media is hoping no one notices the huge oil tanker collision and spill near New Orleans in the Mississippi River of July 23, 2008. It isn't exactly the sort of thing they want the public to notice while the Bush administration is pushing the idea of drilling for more oil in Alaska. The New Orleans, oil tanker collision, and Alaska/Valdez connections to the story reminded me of some of the subjects you've dealt with.

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